One of London's 'Commons' Carrying on with my little series about London, a City but also very much a collection of villages which I enjoyed living in, working in, getting married in, and finally "'leavin'", I just wanted to touch on those places which London has so many of......'The Commons' - rather akin to Public Parks, but immense in size and in every 'village'.... A bit of their history is here: http://www.graftingardeners.co.uk/history-londons-commons/ and some are used by the well known London Buses. Some are criss-crossed by main roads, some have public golf courses, some have tennis courts, both in concrete and in grass.... The special thing about these 'Commons' is their size....They are immense. In pure ground value they must be worth billions of billions of pounds sterling, and yet there is rarely any attack made on their status. It is rather astounding! Just for the record, there is another, ...
Today is apparantly World Peace Day. This is Googles' Doodle, and it's sort of ironic that there are only 12-15 wars going on today, plus a couple of hundred 'insurgences'.....! around http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_military_conflicts
(red areas are major wars with more than 1,000 deaths per year - yellow 'minor' conflicts with fewer than 1000 deaths/year!) - As at October 2012
North Korea
South Korea
AfghanistanUtopia somewhere else(suzybazaar.wordpress.com)
Promoting Peace in the World(mangosalute.com)
Happy International World Peace Day!(austinsegwaytours.wordpress.com)
